Kara Walker's Fons Americanus: A Monument about Monuments
Kara Walker's work asks us to struggle with big ideas and helps us make the invisible assumptions in our world visible. This video is me struggling with the difficult objects she creates, Fons Americanus, and I couldn't be more grateful for the lesson.
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Works Cited
Gambari, Olga, and Kara Walker. Kara Walker: a Negress of Noteworthy Talent; Fondazione Merz, 2011.
PEABODY, REBECCA. CONSUMING STORIES: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race. UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 2021.
Tate. “Kara Walker's Fons Americanus – Look Closer.” Tate, www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/kara-walker-2674/kara-walkers-fons-americanus.
Walker, Kara, et al. Kara Walker: Fons Americanus. Tate Publishing, 2019.
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